We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That's a pretty big deal.
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.